ataraxion | two. video. (hèn oîda hóti oudèn oîda)

[ Peter's decided to show his face on film again, despite everything that's gone on the past week or so. Mostly he looks tired, eyes blood shot, moderately banged up. And then there's the fact that he looks immensely annoyed. ]

So-- question for everyone. Everyone who isn't busy trying to get better in the medbay. [ a brief moment of silence for those folks. ]

Humor me.

[ he folds his arms, gets down to business. ]

How many of you guys deal with this sort of thing on a daily basis back home? And by this sort of thing, I mean the monsters and the... whatever else they might have been. And if i'm calling them the wrong thing, go ahead and fill me in, i'd rather be an informed idiot than just an asshole.

Because me, personally? [ aaand his arms go uncrossed. which is to say, prepare for some intense gesticulation. use your imagination. ] I'm sort of caught somewhere in-between. Doesn't matter how many weird things happen, I still happen to think they're pretty damn weird. I'm just gonna have to go ahead and put some of the things i've seen into a category of absolute absurdity, but that? It sort of ranked up there with the worst of it.

And maybe what I want to know is, for the people who had to get used to this - y'know, those of you who weren't born into vampires and dinosaurs and bears, oh my - what the hell do you do to cope? Not to protect yourself, i'm not looking to take a class on self defense and deep breathing, but how do you relearn how to sleep at night? No pun intended. I sure as hell wasn't prepared to find monsters deciding the engineering department held answers to the universe. But I wasn't prepared for a chimera either, and I got past that one.

Do you all just get used to it? Or do we get better at pretending it doesn't actually matter?

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Pretty sure we can't be considered invaders when we were kidnapped.

Tell that to them, see how far it gets you.

Yeah, I get it, they think we're barging in on their property for shits and giggles.

[ SIGH. ] But that doesn't change anything about the monsters, because we're still the ones being dropped into mysterious black holes and chased down by things with enormously big teeth.

If you're waiting for something to change, with the monsters, you're going t' be waiting a long time. There's no one that's going to suddenly have all of the answers, where they're coming from, why they were ever put here--what you can do to keep them off of you. This place doesn't work like that. There's not a lot that does.

Thanks for the life lesson, but believe me, there's at least a few of those things I managed to figure out on my own.

Yeah? Good for you. And I'll bet you'll get really far, asking for people's help and then getting all dismissive. It's going to be fun watching that play out.

Good luck with that.

I wasn't asking for help. I was just asking a question that's apparently been taken way too far out of context.

Yeah, well. You're asking a spaceship full of people how they deal with weird supernatural shit, you're going to get a lot of answers that end up a little off-topic, especially here.

[relenting maybe a little though...]

You've been dealing with it for two years. You've not been here for two years, have you?

I was going for variety, not off-topic. [ granted, as much as peter's an asshole just because he can be, it really was a.... sortakinda honest question. an 'attempt at conversation.' ]

But I haven't, no. And i'm pretty sure i'd need more than two years to get used to this place's brand of crazy.

Well, you know how it is. You get a lot of people from different worlds, shove them all into one mad place, there's no telling what tangents they're going t' go on.

So what's your brand of crazy, then, if it's not-- manticores and endless hallways.

Hard enough to tell when they're from your own world.

[ but he still snorts, because that's a whole new ballgame. ] Mine? Involves a lot more scientific experiments gone really, really wrong. We don't get anything that goes bump in the night, just people whose brains boil inside their heads.

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